Croze ring for barrels



CROZE RING FOR BARRELS Fil'e d March '7 1921..

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B m f zws 41 ATTORNEYS Patented Apr. 24, 1923i UNITED stares ra'rsnr OFFICE.

STANTON W. JEORSMAN, DE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE PABAFFINE COMPANIES, INC., OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, A CORPORATION OF DELA WARE.

CROZE RING FOR BARRELS.

Application filed March 7, 1921. Serial No. 450,386

T all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, STANTON W. Fons- MAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county of Los An geles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Croze Ring for Barrels,

of which the following is a specification.

The present invention has reference to barrel structures and more particularly to paper barrels.

It is one of the objects of the present invention to provide an integral, substantial and readily applied croze ring for barrels and especially for paper barrels.

It is a particular object of the present invention to so improve the construction of sheet metal croze rings as to enable the application of the ring to the edge of a paper barrel, facilitating and enabling the rapid assembling of the barrel elements.

The invention possesses other objects and features of advantage, some of which, with the foregoing, will be made manifest in the following description of the preferred form of the invention which is illustrated in the drawings accompanying and forming part of the specification. It is to be understood that it is not intended to limit the invention to the embodiment shown by the said draw in adapted within the scope of the invention as set forth in the claim.

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a barrel to which the improved ring has been applied.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of one of the rings in its normal condition prior to application to a barrel head.

Fig. 8 is an enlarged detail sectional view.

showing the assembled barrel elements.

Fig. 4 is an elevation of a portion of the croze ring.

The present invention consists of substantially integral, sheet metal rings, having inner and outer substantially concentric flanges, one of which is provided with a seat or croze for an applied barrel head, while the other flange is adapted to flt down over the exterior surface of one end of a barrel.

In its illustrated embodiment the improved ring is made of sheet metal stamped into the paper barrel.

s and description as variations may be or rolled in the desired size to take a given size barrel head. The ring comprises an inner substantially cylindrical flange 2 provided with an intermediate inwardly extending bead 3 parallel to which there is provided an inwardly turned lip 4, between which bead and lip there is adapted to be received the barrel head 5. At one end of nner flange or part 3 is a lateral connecting portion 6 joining the outer flange 7 to the inner flange. I

To facilitate the application of the split ring 2 to the end of a barrel B after the head 5 has been applied to the ring, and to insure a tight fit of the ring on the barrel, the inner and outer flanges are preferably slightly divergent toward the mouth of the channel between the flanges and to further insure ready assembly the free end 80f the outer flange is flared outwardly. The outer flange is also preferably provided with means for locking the ring onto the barrel, this means preferably comprising a plurality of spaced pointed teeth 10 struck from the flange and inclined inwardly to bite When it is desired to remove the head, an instrument is inserted under the outer flange to bend the teeth outwardly or into the plane of the flange. i

In practice the head 5 is introduced into the ring as shown in Fig. 2 in its normal position and the ring contracted about the head 5 which is engaged between the bead 3 and the lip 4. The assembled ring and head is then pressed down over the edge of the barrel B, where it is locked in place by the teeth.

That is claimed is:

A closure heading and binding band comprising a single integral piece of sheet metal shaped to form an inwardly presented channel portion to receive a closure head, and. a downwardly presented gradually widening channel portion to receive a closure wall, the outer wall of the downwardlypresented gradually widening channel portion being flared outward at its lower edge.

. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand. 

